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While you’re at it, you should probably get c/Christianity unhidden too
Hmmm, why? Do you want to lay out for me the benefits and deficits of such a change?
Besides the fact that was never done in the first place, to justify the initial change?
Embers need air to kindle
Flowers often need cross-pollination to bloom
Frankly I couldn’t care less, considering I stopped subscribing a while ago because of how claustrophobic and cloistered it had been allowed to become. I wonder (/s) if that’s related.
So the deficit of moderators enforcing apoliticality is an insignificant deficit to you, and the air and exposure is a benefit. I guess I figured that but will need to pray on what a clear valuation would be.
Your words seem to mean that the initial change from apolitical to political, if there was one, didn't have the benefits laid out. My recollection, which is not logged, is that when I was asked to join the mods about one month after the community's founding there was no doubt to any of us that the community declared sufficient authority over politics. Now, the first mod action, on the day of the community's founding, was to approve a post about "never forget" J6, and the next action the second day was to delete a meme that used AOC's political posture in a nonpolitical context (which I didn't wheel-war later). So I'd agree the line has always been very blurry, but I don't think it was something that admin was prepared to micromanage upon that first community rollout, and so the status a month later is the more normative.
If there was no discussion then, discussion now is certainly fine! But, before praying on it in more depth, I can say my first reaction is that to add apoliticality to our civility rules would be pretty similar to the state regulating political speech in a 501(c)(3). Hard sell, which is why I asked you.
Dude, I don’t need any more paragraphs on the subject until you can produce a concrete definition for “politics” that is actually being applied to the Trending feed.
It seems obvious to me that this doesn’t, and has never existed, and the simple reality is that 4-5 years ago the admins wanted to pretend like they gave a fuck, but have since dropped any pretense. This seems painfully UNobvious to you.